Happy Announcement

My full-length manuscript Forever War was selected as the winner of YesYes Book’s 2018 Pamet River Prize. It’s also a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Both things are wonderful, and shocking. It took me about exactly a calendar year to place my manuscript. Truthfully, I was gearing up for another entire year of sending the manuscript out to first book contests, and I was feeling good about it. After several drafts and ten rejections, it felt like it was in its final form. But then it landed at YesYes Books, a press I feel so lucky to be a part of.

It’s due out spring 2020 in time for AWP in San Antonio. This feels so special, as I lived in San Antonio from 2003-2004, during which I married my spouse.